Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,151 5,761 7,216
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.96% 23.22% 19.14%
As % of the General category 34.70% 36.08% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,856 5,018
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -4.26% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £707 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 107 246
10th Percentile £15.23 £17.91 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.56 £15.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.11 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +36.11% +2.79%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.13 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.86 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.02 £27.00
% change year-on-year -5.46% +37.11% -3.50%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,488 15,968 21,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.64% 64.36% 57.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,306 10,292 13,773
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,641 771 1,839
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.64
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.70 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.52% -9.18% -0.07%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,873 £575 -4.17% 1,768
North of England +2 1,278 £494 +6.52% 608
South East +1 683 £500 -4.31% 848
North West +4 674 £465 +3.33% 323
Midlands 0 641 £500 +9.89% 370
Yorkshire 0 556 £525 +10.53% 218
West Midlands +1 464 £502 +0.30% 219
South West -2 380 £525 -1.18% 234
East of England +2 197 £513 -10.87% 176
East Midlands -1 170 £475 +11.76% 147
North East -17 49 £500 +13.64% 78
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 291 (3.57%) Confluence
2 200 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 80 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 62 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.55%) Apache
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.32%) CMS
9 21 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
14 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.074%) HCL Notes
15 6 (0.074%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.074%) Mendix
15 6 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 448 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 53 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.049%) Trello
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.037%) Notion
10 3 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.012%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 294 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (1.31%) NetSuite
3 93 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 79 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 78 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
6 69 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
7 40 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 40 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
8 39 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
9 37 (0.45%) Aladdin
9 37 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 33 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
11 32 (0.39%) SAP CO
12 30 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
13 27 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 27 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
14 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
15 22 (0.27%) SAP ERP
16 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
17 19 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,303 (15.99%) Azure
2 940 (11.53%) AWS
3 566 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 406 (4.98%) GCP
5 284 (3.48%) SaaS
6 279 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 260 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.54%) GitHub
9 185 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 160 (1.96%) Snowflake
11 154 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 136 (1.67%) Serverless
13 106 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 102 (1.25%) Power Automate
15 97 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 97 (1.19%) OCI
16 86 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (1.04%) dbt
18 79 (0.97%) OpenShift
19 76 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 145 (1.78%) Firewall
2 123 (1.51%) Network Security
3 68 (0.83%) VPN
4 67 (0.82%) DNS
5 57 (0.70%) WAN
6 55 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.45%) BGP
8 32 (0.39%) HTTP
8 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 32 (0.39%) SSL
9 30 (0.37%) DHCP
10 26 (0.32%) OSPF
11 25 (0.31%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 22 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.23%) VSAN
16 17 (0.21%) Internet
16 17 (0.21%) VLAN
17 16 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (5.96%) Power BI
2 234 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 218 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 154 (1.89%) Metadata
6 141 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 125 (1.53%) Tableau
8 121 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 68 (0.83%) Big Data
12 61 (0.75%) Oracle Database
13 58 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 48 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 47 (0.58%) Power Query
16 44 (0.54%) Delta Lake
16 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 43 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 597 (7.32%) JIRA
2 200 (2.45%) Git
3 147 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.09%) GitLab
5 52 (0.64%) JUnit
6 44 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.42%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (0.32%) MLflow
10 25 (0.31%) Postman
10 25 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.25%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.23%) ERwin
13 19 (0.23%) Maven
14 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
15 15 (0.18%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.17%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.17%) Gradle
16 14 (0.17%) Hudson
General
1 2,366 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 1,521 (18.66%) Banking
3 1,059 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (5.61%) Public Sector
5 362 (4.44%) Legal
6 331 (4.06%) Financial Institution
7 313 (3.84%) Investment Banking
8 297 (3.64%) Front Office
9 268 (3.29%) Retail
10 266 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 199 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 198 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
13 154 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 142 (1.74%) Local Government
15 135 (1.66%) Manufacturing
16 128 (1.57%) General Ledger
17 127 (1.56%) Law
18 125 (1.53%) Billing
19 121 (1.48%) Marketing
20 119 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,180 (14.48%) Analyst
2 923 (11.32%) Senior
3 855 (10.49%) Lead
4 836 (10.26%) Developer
5 775 (9.51%) Architect
6 632 (7.75%) Project Manager
7 592 (7.26%) Business Analyst
8 525 (6.44%) Consultant
9 317 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 283 (3.47%) Data Engineer
11 211 (2.59%) Senior Manager
12 192 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
13 174 (2.13%) Data Analyst
14 169 (2.07%) Accountant
14 169 (2.07%) Finance Manager
15 168 (2.06%) Java Developer
16 157 (1.93%) Senior Developer
16 157 (1.93%) Software Engineer
17 155 (1.90%) Programme Manager
18 154 (1.89%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (3.04%) REST
2 247 (3.03%) .NET
3 237 (2.91%) React
4 229 (2.81%) Kafka
5 188 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 176 (2.16%) Middleware
7 146 (1.79%) Spring
8 144 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 122 (1.50%) RESTful
10 106 (1.30%) Redux
11 103 (1.26%) PySpark
12 98 (1.20%) Node.js
13 86 (1.06%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.98%) JSON
15 74 (0.91%) OAuth
16 70 (0.86%) XML
17 61 (0.75%) CSS
18 58 (0.71%) Pandas
19 56 (0.69%) HTML
20 54 (0.66%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 379 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 346 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 336 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 228 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 201 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 183 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 157 (1.93%) Fixed Income
8 156 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 151 (1.85%) Derivative
10 145 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 142 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 136 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 117 (1.44%) Equities
14 115 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 105 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 98 (1.20%) AI Agents
17 97 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 90 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
19 87 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
20 79 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 283 (3.47%) Windows
2 253 (3.10%) Linux
3 132 (1.62%) Unix
4 63 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 36 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 31 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (0.34%) zOS
9 27 (0.33%) Android
10 20 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.086%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.074%) VMS
13 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.049%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,736 (21.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,676 (20.56%) Agile
3 1,146 (14.06%) Migration
4 1,044 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
5 943 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 884 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 879 (10.78%) DevOps
8 844 (10.35%) AI
9 843 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 814 (9.99%) ERP
11 807 (9.90%) Analytics
12 724 (8.88%) Decision-Making
13 717 (8.80%) Project Management
14 684 (8.39%) Data Modelling
15 683 (8.38%) Roadmaps
16 678 (8.32%) Validation
17 626 (7.68%) User Acceptance Testing
18 617 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
19 596 (7.31%) Change Management
20 535 (6.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (13.88%) SQL
2 1,002 (12.29%) Python
3 561 (6.88%) Java
4 359 (4.40%) C#
5 234 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 233 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 187 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 80 (0.98%) C++
9 74 (0.91%) Bash
10 73 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 67 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 64 (0.79%) Go
13 55 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 53 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 43 (0.53%) Scala
16 42 (0.52%) VBA
17 31 (0.38%) Bicep
18 30 (0.37%) Apex Code
19 29 (0.36%) Rust
20 28 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 667 (8.18%) Degree
2 634 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 456 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 214 (2.63%) ACCA
5 210 (2.58%) PMP
6 189 (2.32%) CIMA
7 177 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 157 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 138 (1.69%) CISSP
10 125 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 86 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 81 (0.99%) CISM
13 80 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 75 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 61 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 42 (0.52%) AWS Certification
18 38 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 32 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 31 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 359 (4.40%) QA
3 305 (3.74%) PMO
4 285 (3.50%) GDPR
5 159 (1.95%) NIST
6 132 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 113 (1.39%) IFRS
8 96 (1.18%) SLA
9 89 (1.09%) GRC
10 88 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 77 (0.94%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 61 (0.75%) GAAP
14 55 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 36 (0.44%) NCSC
16 35 (0.43%) SEPA
17 34 (0.42%) Solvency II
18 33 (0.40%) PSD2
19 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
20 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 263 (3.23%) Docker
2 168 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.36%) vSphere
5 28 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.15%) RACF
10 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.12%) NFS
12 6 (0.074%) GPFS
12 6 (0.074%) KVM
13 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.037%) GridGain
15 3 (0.037%) SRDF
16 2 (0.025%) ACF2
16 2 (0.025%) HDFS
16 2 (0.025%) IAG
Systems Management
1 367 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 239 (2.93%) Terraform
3 130 (1.59%) Ansible
4 75 (0.92%) Grafana
5 67 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (0.60%) SCCM
8 37 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.31%) Control-M
10 19 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
17 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,049 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 675 (8.28%) Oracle
3 653 (8.01%) SAP
4 286 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 248 (3.04%) Databricks
6 205 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 183 (2.25%) Google
8 121 (1.48%) Workday
9 110 (1.35%) VMware
10 105 (1.29%) Splunk
11 95 (1.17%) Cisco
12 92 (1.13%) IBM
13 90 (1.10%) CyberArk
14 63 (0.77%) Citrix
15 62 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 54 (0.66%) Ariba
16 54 (0.66%) Sage
17 53 (0.65%) Bloomberg
18 47 (0.58%) Informatica
19 43 (0.53%) Murex